I started learning to sweep a while ago, and recently i figured out the best way to do so it to make sure your wrist is the only thing making your hand move down and up, the only other thing you have to do to make every sweep clean is keep the pick level horizontally to some extent all the way up and down.

SO as you go down, naturally your hand truns and if you tense up your thumb and fingers your pick will start getting all angled and funny making it harder to accurately hit each string. What you need to do is adjust your thubm and finger so that the pick is horizontally level all the way downa nd up, it makes every sweep crisp and clear.

With the lef thand you need to build muscle memory to increase the speed at which you can sweep arpeggios and what not and build coordination between the two hands, this part in my opinion takes the longest, becasue sweeping is not all that hard. It comes down to coordination, which allows for super speed.

Also i'd take up learning the arpeggio part from Jason Becker's Serrena as an exercise.

Anyhow, hope that helps a bit...

[Edited by Seiko_Hejiro on 02-17-2002 at 03:43 PM]